yield

Definition

Examples

The new investment should yield a steady return over five years.

Word Family

Synonyms

• producefresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market
• generatebring into existence
• outputfinal product; the things produced

Collocations

• Easy high crop yield after good rains
  describing high crop yield after good rains (a lofty level or position or degree)
• Medium yield a reasonable return on investment
  to yield a reasonable return on investment, meaning to be the cause or source of
• Hard inverted sovereign treasury bond yield curve
  to inverted sovereign treasury bond yield curve, meaning to make an inversion (in a musical composition)
• Very Hard refuse to yield an inch of ground to aggressive invaders
  to refuse to yield an inch of ground to aggressive invaders, meaning to show unwillingness towards